Deadline: 06-Jul-21
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs (OJP), Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), are seeking applications for funding under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Assistance Formula Grant Program.
Goals
OVC strongly encourages SAAs to use the VOCA Assistance funding within the program parameters to affirmatively advance equity, civil rights, racial justice, and equal opportunity. The following practices may advance SAA efforts toward these goals:
- Include diverse and frequently marginalized perspectives in any process to identify victim service needs (e.g., strategic planning).
- Consider funding organizations that in the past have not received VOCA funds. Review the SAA criteria for determining the organizational capacity of subrecipient applicants, and selecting subrecipients for funding, to ensure that these criteria do not unnecessarily exclude or deter from applying organizations serving traditionally underserved communities.
- Support victims of violent crime through community-based crime victim intervention projects.
Objective
- States and territories shall use funds to support eligible crime victim assistance programs that provide direct services to crime victims; retaining up to 5 percent of their total grant for administrative and training purposes.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount to be Awarded Under Solicitation: $1,093,332,726.00
- Anticipated Maximum Dollar Amount of Awards: $1,093,332,726.00
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 56
- Period of Performance Start Date: 10/1/20 12:00 AM
- Period of Performance Duration (Months): 48
Eligibility Criteria
- Territories and possessions of the United States.
- All states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands are eligible to receive an annual VOCA victim assistance formula grant. Applicants must meet the eligibility requirements specified in VOCA.
- All recipients and sub-recipients (including any for-profit organization) must forgo any profit or management fee.
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=333662
